NOTE:What they did was strip him to his waist and beat him with a whip that
had rough chunks of steel tied on it every foot or so.Many men died of it.

VERSE 27-29In Jesus' weakened condition, what did the
soldiers do to him next?______________________________________

__________________________________________.What did they say to him?__________________________

___________________________________________________________

VERSE 30What did they do to him after that?________________________________________________________________

NOTE:By the time they took the scarlet robe off him, his blood would have
clotted and then the wounds re-opened.

DAY TWO:

VERSE 31According to Mark 15:22, pg. 50, they
brought him to Golgotha ("skull hill").The word "brought" in the original Greek manuscripts
means they carried him.Jesus was so
weak by this time, the soldiers had to literally carry him up the hill.

VERSE 32On their way they forced a man named
___________________ to ________________ Jesus' _________________.

VERSE 34Why do you think Jesus refused the pain
killers?_____________________________________________________

VERSE 37What did the sign designating his crime
say?________________________________________________________

VERSE 38What other criminals were crucified at
the same time?________________________________________________

VERSE 40What did the taunts of the crowds have in
common with Satan's taunts three years earlier when he tempted Jesus in the
wilderness (see Matthew 4:3 and 6)?What is the phrase they all repeated?_________________________

__________________________________________________

VERSE 42Do you think the chief priests, theology
teachers, and elders really would have believed Jesus had he come down from the
cross?_____________Why?____________________________________________________________

VERSE 45Jesus was crucified the third hour of the
day (see Mark 15:25, pg.51), which would be 9:00.Beginning at ______

o'clock and ______ o'clock, there was
____________________________.

VERSE 46At 3:00 he cried out loudly
"__________________________________ why have you _______________________.

NOTE:God only forsakes those who have sinned against him.In the Old Testament 700 years before Jesus,
Isaiah 53:4 says, "Yet it was OUR grief he bore, OUR sorrows that weighed
him down.And we thought his problems
were a punishment from God for his OWN sins.

Acts 2:27b and Ephesians 4:8b in the Living
Bible Translation says, "You [God] will not leave my soul in hell.... When
Christ returned triumphantly to heaven after his resurrection and victory over
Satan, he gave generous gifts to men.

This seems to indicate that during those
three hours when Jesus said nothing, his soul descended to hell where he took
our punishment for our sins.That is
why God had to forsake him.God cannot
dwell in hell.It was as though Jesus
willfully plunged his soul to hell shouting to Satan, "Punish me, not
them!Punish me!"

Revelation 1:18 quotes Jesus as saying,
"I hold the ___________ of death and _________________.Jesus performed the impossible.He broke out of hell, something we could
never do.How amazing that he would
love us that much!

VERSE 48Jesus finally accepted a small drink of
____________________________ from a sponge.

NOTE:The MERCK MANUAL OF DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY says anyone in severe
shock (obviously this was one of the things Jesus was suffering with) should
never be given liquids by mouth "as it often results in sudden
death."Apparently Jesus was now
ready to die and knew what to do to hurry it up.

John 19:30 (pg. 108) says that after his
drink he said, "It is _________________."He had done all the work he had come to earth to do.

VERSE 50When Jesus had _______________ out again
in a _________________ voice, he _____________________ his

___________________________.

VERSE 51Immediately the _______________ shook and
the _________________ split (earthquake), and at that moment the
____________________________ of the ______________________ was ________________
in two from _______

to ___________________________.

NOTE:This curtain was a room divided hiding the Most Holy Place in the
Temple.Only one person was ever
allowed to enter it - the high priest - and even then only once a year on the
Day of Atonement (see Hebrews 9:1-7, pg. 207).Jesus became our high priest and entered the spiritual Most Holy Place
(Hebrews 9:8-12).With the curtain
torn, Jesus began the new testament (Hebrews 9:15-16).

VERSE 52-53Also at that moment the ____________ broke
____________ and the ___________________ of many holy people who had __________
were ___________________________________________.They stayed near their graves until after Jesus'
_________________________ at which time they entered Jerusalem.

VERSE 54What did the centurion exclaim upon
seeing all this?_________________________________________________

VERSE57-60Rich
Joseph took Jesus' mangled and bloody body off the cross, getting Jesus' blood
all over his clothes, and placed it in his own
_______________________________________________.then he rolled a _____________________

in front of the entrance.

VERSE 66The chief priests wanted to make sure no
one stole Jesus' body to fool people into believing he came back to life, so
Pilate gave them permission to _____________________ it by putting a (concrete)
___________________ on the stone, and posting _____________________________.

Chapter 28
- Page 32

Jesus'
Resurrection and Great Commission

VERSE 1Why did the Christians begin
worshipping on the first day of the week (Sunday) instead of the seventh day of
the week (Sabbath)?HINT:Look at verse 6. ___________________________________________________________

VERSE 4The guards saw it, but became so
___________________________ they _____________________ and became like _____________________________
men.

VERSE 5-9Who were the first to see Jesus after he
returned to life?______________________________________________

VERSE 11-13When the guards reported what had happened,
the religious hierarchy bribed the soldiers to say Jesus' ______________ came
during the ___________________________ and __________________ him away.

VERSE 19What was the first half of Jesus' great
commission to them?___________ and
make ________________________ of all nations, _____________________________
them in the name of the __________________________, the

_____________________, and the
__________________________________________.

Verse 20What is the second half of Jesus'
great commission to them?______________________ them to _____________ everything I have
_____________________________________ you.

NOTE:This shows that baptism alone cannot save us.It also shows that obeying Jesus' other commands alone will not
save us either.What does it show?_____________________________________________________________

If we do these things, Jesus promised to be
with us _______________________.

DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND JERUSALEM PREDICTED BY
JESUS

And told by Eye Witness Flavius Josephus

WARS OF THE JEWS, BOOK VI

Now the soldiers had already put
fire to the gates...whence it spread itself all on the sudden and caught hold
of the cloisters....The fire prevailed during that day and the next
also....Those that guarded the holy house fought with those that quenched the
fire that was burning the inner court....As the flames went upward the Jews
made a great clamour....Now round about the altar lay dead bodies heaped one
upon another...threw the fire upon the hinges of the gate in the dark; whereby
the flame burst out from within the holy house itself immediately...and thus
was the holy house burnt down.

Ten thousand that were caught were
slain...children, and old men, and profane persons, and priests, were all slain
in the same manner....The flame was also carried a long way, and made an echo
together with the groans of those that were slain; and because this hill was
high and the works at the temple were very great, one would have thought that
the whole city had been on fire.Nor
can one imagine anything either greater or more terrible than this noise.

....One would have thought that
the hill itself, on which the Temple stood, was seething-hot, as full of fire
on every part of it, that the blood was larger in quantity than the fire, and
those that were slain more in number than those that slew them; for the ground
did nowhere appear visible, for the dead bodies that lay on it....As the fire
burst out upon them, they retired to the wall....in the outer court of the
Temple, whither the women and children and a great mixed multitude of the
people fled, in number about six thousand...were destroyed by throwing
themselves down headlong, and some were burnt in the cloisters themselves.Nor did any one of these escape with his
life.

A false prophet was the occasion
of these people's destruction, who had made a public proclamation in the city
that very day, that God commanded them to get up upon the Temple, and that
there they should receive miraculous signs of their deliverance.Now, there was then a great number of false
prophets.

....the Romans set all on fire as
far as Siloam.These soldiers were
indeed glad to see the city destroyed....Accordingly, as the people were now
slain, and the holy house was burnt down, and the city was on fire, there was
nothing further left for the enemy to do....But when they went in numbers into
the lanes of the city with their swords drawn, they slew those whom they
overtook without mercy, and set fire to the houses whither the Jews were fled,
and burnt every soul in them, and laid waste a great many of the rest; and when
they were come to the houses to plunder them, they found in them entire
families of dead men, and the upper rooms full of dead corpses, that is of such
as died by the famine; they then stood in a horror at this sight, and went out
without touching anything....but they ran everyone through whom they met with,
and obstructed the very lanes with their dead bodies, and made the whole city
run down with blood, to such a degree indeed that the fire of many of the
houses was quenched with these men's blood....yet did the fire greatly prevail
in the night; and as all was burning

....As for the rest of the
multitude that were above seventeen years old, he put them into bonds and sent
them to the Egyptian mines.Titus also
sent a great number into the provinces, as a present to them, that they might
be destroyed upon their theatres, by the sword and by the wild beasts; but
those that were under seventeen years of age were sold for slaves.Now, during the days...men there perished
for want of food eleven thousand.